Study finds diet did not affect PSA levels
... of diet to influence PSA levels over a relatively short period of time should not be viewed as definitive evidence that diet does not have a preventative effect on prostate cancer. "This is a rigorous and randomized study that provides valuable data which previously did not exist," says Dr. Shike. "Howe...Sense of control eases physical toll of stressful situation
...me of catch. As the students played, they received short blasts of a mildly annoying noise through headphones. About half the players were told that better performance on the game would reduce the number of noises; the remaining players were told that the blasts were random. The results of cardiovascular m...Kidney disease in diabetics relates to insulins effectiveness, say Pittsburgh researchers
...lood fats, which only predicted nephropathy in the short term. To measure insulin resistance, investigators used a novel calculation based on waist-to-hip ratio, hypertension status and long-term blood sugar levels. "Although our measure of insulin resistance is an estimate based on easier-to-measure facto...Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are undetected in over one quarter of obese population
...estyle intervention alone Weight loss, both in the short and the long term, was significantly greater with Xenical plus lifestyle intervention compared with lifestyle intervention alone (-11.4 vs -7.5 kg at one year and -6.9 vs -4.1kg at four years) Xenical-treated patients had significant, sustained, long...Athleticism and body weight tied to ALS and other motor neuron diseases
...er the famous baseball player whose career was cut short by the disease, has been associated with many patients who were lean throughout their lives as well as being athletes, said Lewis P. Rowland, MD, with the Neurological Institute in New York, and a co-author of the study. The case-control study compa...OTC sales of smoking cessation aids up, effectiveness down
...rast to 1992 and 1996, the effect in 1999 was only short term; after about three months, the effect is about the same as for those who used no aids. The researchers hypothesize that this shift happened in large part because of the context within which NRTs were available, and the nature of the products th...Repressing anxiety may protect against stress disorders
...romote adjustment to traumatic stress, both in the short and longer term," says lead study author Karni Ginzburg, Ph.D., of the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University in Israel. With colleagues Zahava Solomon, Ph.D., and Avi Bleich, M.D., Ginzburg studied more than 100 patients who were ...Patients often miss out on nutrition counseling, at cost to health
...hronically ill patients receiving counseling falls short of the Healthy People 2010 national nutritional objectives, which suggest that 75 percent of office visits for hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease and diabetes should include nutrition counseling. The study results are published in the October is...Rensselaer research team sheds light on a good night's sleep for those with Alzheimer's
...ing diodes) because recent research has shown that short wavelength (blue) light is maximally effective at affecting the circadian system whereas middle wavelengths (yellow-green) are better for visual performance. The circadian system is composed rhythms that repeat at approximately every 24 hours. Four A......values doctors yet expects and will accept nothing short of perfection Even with perfect risk management mistakes will be 'made'people will die young or decline with age, and not all pregnancies will have a good outcome. Unfortunately doctors are more easily sued than God, and moreoverpay cash."...Stanford researcher to find cure for widespread Celiac disease
...ut Celiac Sprue, have discovered that a relatively short fragment of the gluten protein is exceptionally toxic to Celiac Sprue patients. This gluten fragment is unusually resistant to breakdown by digestive enzymes in the intestine, where it remains intact to have a destructive effect on the intestinal li...Pill may prevent stent complication that re-blocks arteries
...s working. With an oral drug we can give it for a short time, and then monitor its effect," says Virmani, chair, department of cardiovascular pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. Six New Zealand white rabbits received 1.5mg/kg per day of everolimus starting three days before st...Cardiac MRI provides new 3-D images of beating heart
...at conventional methods for imaging the heart fall short in providing accurate information on which to guide treatment. The cardiologists believe that cardiac MRI can help this significant number of heart patients. Pressley is among the first patients to have their hearts "scanned" at the new Duke Cardiova...Opioids should be considered for relief of chronic lower back pain
...r, many of the published studies are of relatively short duration. * Risk of drug dependence and withdrawal if the drug is stopped or dosage reduced: Existing studies indicate a low risk of drug dependence and withdrawal. Additionally, the studies point to a preference for longer-acting versus shorter...Most definitive study of its kind shows that sleeping on the stomach increases infant SIDS risk
... both cases and controls were interviewed within a short time of their infants' last sleep period....Study shows promising long-term results for children of divorce
...a State University research team is showing that a short intervention program for children of divorced parents can significantly reduce long-term diagnosis of mental disorder in the children.The study, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and is to be published in the Journal of the...A quick-change artist: Tiny protein folds faster than any other
...cult computational problem spontaneously in such a short amount of time?" Vijay Pande, an assistant professor of chemistry at Stanford University, called the UF finding "really important and very exciting." He said it could speed up biologists' efforts to simulate the protein-folding process, which coul...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October (second issue)
...revealed that the prophylactic administration of a short course of intravenous antibiotics, in combination with topical non-absorbable antibiotics, has significantly reduced the incidence of infections and prevented progression to severe organ failure in critically ill surgical and trauma patients. (Despi...Rigorous, short-term diet-exercise program lowers heart disease risk
... risk factors for other chronic diseases in a very short time," says R. James Barnard, Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of physiological science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Barnard and colleagues studied 11 obese (body mass index of 30 or greater) men aged 38 to 72, who vol...New study shows weight loss decreases ACE enzyme that controls blood pressure
...ing that calorie intake does not affect ACE in the short term. "Even when people just lost about 7 percent of their initial weight and were still obese at the end of the study, they still had a significant improvement in ACE activity and also in blood pressure," she said. "A previous study had shown that a...